Solaris J. Capehart: Turning toward one another amid times of crisis
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How do we navigate questions around staying to resist, versus relocating to find home — in a time when certain places may no longer feel safe for certain bodies? What might it look like to push back against gentrification as a community? And how do we confront the complicity of our entanglement in systems of oppression, extraction, and displacement?
In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Solaris J. Capehart, a Liberian poet who works alongside their neighbors to nurture The Garden Abolitionist Bookstore & Community Well.
Join us as we explore how gentrification is wrapped up in particular ideals of advancement and particular visions of quality of life that are not neutral; how we can continue showing up for ourselves and our communities during precarious times; and more.
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Song feature: “I Am” ft. India Arie by Beautiful Chorus
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, it's your host, Kamea. I've been feeling kind of perpetually overwhelmed by the state of the world, |
| 0:07.4 | and I'm really realizing again how important it is to have a daily re-centering practice for myself. |
| 0:14.6 | So I've been really working on that, and I'm not sure how this may be finding you, |
| 0:19.3 | but I want to use this maybe as a gentle reminder |
| 0:22.2 | for you as well to also nurture a ritual or practice whatever that may look like that feels |
| 0:29.0 | the most grounding to you. And also, if you happen to be interested in working on this with me |
| 0:35.6 | and with us, I want to invite you to check out Alchemize, |
| 0:39.1 | Green Dreamers 12-week audio-based program of daily imagination and creative practices, inspired |
| 0:46.6 | by a lot of our show's inquiries, and led by a variety of our past guests, collaborators, and myself. |
| 0:54.0 | My inspiration to conceive this offering really came from this question, |
| 0:58.2 | what could it be like to partake in practices of mindfulness that aren't just about this |
| 1:03.1 | re-centering of us as individuals, but like practices of earthfulness. |
| 1:08.0 | So like moving from mindfulness to earthfulness that reroute our imagination |
| 1:13.6 | and embodiment in our deeper and broader webs of relations. This is the question that undergirds |
| 1:20.7 | the program as an invitation to move beyond engaging a lot of the topics that we talk about |
| 1:26.1 | on the show intellectually, but into |
| 1:28.3 | more embodied, sensorial, participatory, and creative ways. So yeah, Alchemize is now open for |
| 1:36.2 | enrollment again, and if this speaks to you, I welcome you to learn more at greendreamer.com slash alchemize. |
| 1:46.8 | Abundance has been interrupted for so many people. |
| 1:49.8 | The worlds that we have in a lot of ways have been spoiled by, corrupted by. |
| 1:55.9 | As that system is failing, we're so connected to it that sometimes it feels like everything is going to fall apart. |
| 2:02.7 | But it's just like a world is going to end. Yes, this world's going to collapse. |
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